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When I was off to Yale in mid-August 1970, Mr. Noon, the Chief Accountant at the Hipodromo de Agua Caliente gave me his personal radium green Voss Business Riter. It was likely 10 years old but was hardly used as Mr Noon had a harem of secretaries on the Mezzanine office floor. It even came with five new ribbons. I used it until November of my junior year when my Harvard friend and I were feverishly grinding out mimeos and correspondence for our new 501(c)(3), "PODER". We broke down and got me a brand new blue IBM Selectric, which made mistakes disappear in a FLASH. I have no memory of where I buried the Voss. This week on the Bay I snagged a nearly untouched early 1960 Voss Business-Riter, also in Radium Green. I do not know for sure, but my guess is the designers at Voss were frustrated German car design freaks. How else would you explain the gull wing doors on the earlier Voss Smiley Face (a nod to the 1950s Mercedes concept cars and 300SL) and the near identical paint match to the Radium Green Porsche, including the iconic #46 pre-356?